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Restore RAW drive back to NTFS [duplicate]
Recently, I have tried to make backup of SSD of my laptop using Macrium Reflect 8 Portable Free edition. However, this process ended in error (which, unfortunatelly, I can't remember, my apologies) ...
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Windows doesn't recognize a partition as NTFS but recovery tools do
Today a computer of mine with Windows Vista can't boot any more. The message "Windows is starting" shows up and a few seconds later it reboots automatically.
So I took the HDD out and ...
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How to fix a partition detected as RAW, when Chkdsk correctly reads it as NTFS?
My external HDD suddenly started reporting as "931.51 GB RAW (Primary)" in Windows disk management.
I tried using DiskInternals Partition Recovery, which indeed reported the drive being only seen as ...
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Windows recovery show disks as RAW, can't run CHKDSK, but Linux sees them normally
My disk is dying (increasing Reallocated Sectors Count) but every time CHKDSK fixed everything untill next time and I'd like to continue like this as long as possible, given that I know all risks and ...
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How to recover partitions?
my partitions are lost and my datas are also lost when I use ntfsfix on my hard drive. For the partition table like this:
sdb disk
└─sdb1 unallocated
└─sdb5 /DATA1
└─sdb6 /...
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NTFS partition no longer accessible, 3 MFT records corrupted, way to fix them?
I have a 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 HDD with one NTFS partition. I hadn't used it in months, when I plugged it again this partition had inexplicably become inaccessible : the volume's letter appears in ...
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Win10 somehow overwrote a partition file table with an old copy
I've had something very weird happen:
I have a Win10 install on a SSD, with another 4 disks connected. Then I added a new disk where I copied 2 large folders to, then I turned PC off and unplugged all ...
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Did I just nuke my drive while doing a FAT32 to NTFS conversion?
I got a 2TB external HDD which was pre-formatted as FAT32. I had assumed exFat and did not bother to check until I ran into the 4GB limit error and realized it was FAT32.
As a last stop, I ran a ...
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Repair NTFS Partition
I have an external drive that recently became unreadable. When I run chkdsk I get the following:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
The First NTFS Boot Sector is Unreadable or Corrupt
Reading ...
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How to Recover a NTFS-formatted RAID 1 Enclosure with 2 Hard Drives?
I have an enclosure that supports two hard drives in RAID 1 mode. A few days ago I connected the enclosure to my laptop and Windows was giving me errors saying it couldn't read/load the D: partition. ...
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Interrupted partition aligning and disk corrupted
So, I was resizing my partition and accidentally aligned it to the left. I didn't noticed it and it successfully resized it. Then it started to align the partition and I was thinking this was some ...
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Laptop HDD fail, Shows partition but can not copy data, testdisk MBR code fail
I use 2TB HDD in my laptop with 250 GB partition for windows 10 and rest for data storage. I switched my laptop so moved the HDD from old to new laptop and started the system. Windows logo came up but ...
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Recover a HDD partition after use of Win32DiskImager
I wanted to copy a image to one of my SD cards using Win32DiskImager. But I clicked too fast and it written to one of my external harddrives instead of my SD drive, so I disconnected as fast I could ...
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NTFS data recovery after being overwritten with Windows installer [duplicate]
I have two primary partitions on my hard disk. The first one contains local system drive (C) and is placed at the start of the disk. The second one is extended.
One day I got superblock of NTFS of the ...
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My old 8TB drive suddenly asks to initialize. All is lost?
I woke up today to find out that my 8tb HDD cannot be accessed. I restarted Win10 hoping it would fix this but now it won't show up. I am looking at it in disk management, it shows up as not ...
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How to recover lost NTFS partition on Windows 7
I have a problem with partition. I had one with name E: and I don't know why it has been lost. (look at the screenshot).
I think it is a problem with partition table.
Can I recover my partition with ...
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CHKDSK made partition a "GPT Protective Partition"? How to set it back?
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I stuck a 2TB drive in some Sata-to-USB3.0 enclosure and copied 1TB of data to it. It was 2,5 5300rpm drive, so it took nearly 20 hours. I am one of the paranoid types, so before I copied ...
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Recover NTFS partition back without formatting
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error
Unable to unable to determine volume version and state
I'm currently running a Partition Wizard Home Edition scan on the drive and it is
finding files and ...
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How to recover deleted NTFS partitions?
Last night I made a terrible mistake. I was reinstalling Windows and I accidentally deleted all the partitions on all my drives. I realized my mistake before I had created any partitions, so nothing ...
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I need to recover a partition after failed resize attempt
Okay so i had one NTFS partition and i wanted to resize it, but while resizing it with partition magic some error occurred and now i am not able to enter in my partition anymore.
I have slackware 13 ...
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How to recover NTFS partition from Linux?
I've formated partition to empty - only erased information that partition is NTFS.
Partition data haven't been changed. So i think only little change to partition table is required.
How can i ...
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Recover data from corrupt NTFS drive - TrueCrypt
Background: Visual Studio 2017 was release two days ago, 2017-03-07, and to get a clean install I decided to format and reinstall my OS, Windows 10.
For my storage disk, I use TrueCrypt 7.1a. After ...
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Everything on my NTFS partition disappeared
I just rebooted into Windows (I dual boot with Ubuntu), and everything in my D: partition is gone!
First question: How do I best preserve the current state of the hard drive to maximize chances of ...
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Correcting tree from messed up file tree in NTFS partition
It's a real messed situation, but I'm quite at the end of my options.
It's my personal hardrive, so it's very important for me, and yes, I have no backup =(
The short story:
I have two discs. One ...
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How can I recover my files from a broken partition with a negative amount of used space?
Scenario: I was flashing an IMG file onto my SD card for my Raspberry Pi. Or so I thought - it turns out I foolishly selected the wrong device path (D: instead of F:) and flashed the IMG to my WD My ...
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How to fix a damaged/corrupted NTFS filesystem/partition without losing the data on it?
I was going to install Fedora 15 along side my Windows 7 Starter on my Acer Apire One D255E and at some point during the resizing of the NTFS partition (the one with Windows on it) the setup failed. ...
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Cut off a ntfs partition and repair it later
I have a semi theoretical question regarding ntfs partitions.
Assume we create a ntfs partition inside a file
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img count=40960
mkfs.ntfs -F test.img
for testing ...
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How to recover files from the compressed NTFS partition?
One of the NTFS partitions was compressed with the tool implemented in Windows 7, available in the partition properties window.
Later, one of the folders has disappeared. I was trying to use Piriform ...
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Rebuild NTFS partition table
At our SOHO we have several 3TB NTFS GUID partitioned hard disks. One of them became unusable. windows did not even recognized it.
Using a hard disk edit utility we found the partition table was ...
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Find list of directories of unreadable NTFS partition
I have a failing hard disk with two NTFS partitions:
C: contains Windows (107 GB)
D: which stores my data (393 GB partition)
I am using an Ubuntu live session as booting into Windows causes a BSOD; ...